SPEAKING on the phone from Toronto, Cameron Bailey, co-director of The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), admits he is managing four to five hours sleep a night as the festival approaches.

The director of the Venice Film Festival insisted today that there was no national quota when he was questioned about a lack of English-language films in this year’s event.

Keira Knightley’s new movie Atonement has been chosen to open this year’s Venice Film Festival.

HOLLYWOOD rolled out its big guns at the Venice International Film Festival yesterday as John Travolta and Denzel Washington showed off their latest movies.